For the end part of June and the entirety of July, I will be in Italy, and thus nothing will happen here. Not that that’s unusual, or anything. But I won’t be active in WordPress matters, and this blog will be left unattended to. I suppose I’ll close comments. Don’t fail me, Akismet.
Things I’m going to be missing:
Beauty in Motion, originally uploaded by DonBaird.
Found this on the last 7 days’ “interesting” photos on Flickr. And I wanted to try the Flickr blogging stuff.
WordPress 2.2.1 has been released, which includes many fixes for bugs that sprung up, and most importantly of all, fixes a few rather major security holes:
escapeshellarg(). Unfortunately, PHPMailer seems to be no longer maintained, so looks like WordPress is going to have to maintain it, or switch to another library.Ever since I started using the PXS Mail Form plugin in favor of WP-ContactForm for my contact page, I always had problems with it conflicting with the Markdown plugin. Namely, that it disabled the Markdown formatting, and left me with a pile of rubbish.
At the time I decided to keep Markdown and disabled PXS Mail Form, and my contact page took a vacation, but I finally managed to take some time to look a little …
I find it highly ironic that PHP’s somewhat infamous safe_mode is listed under “Features” in the PHP manual.
So, I’m quite a reader of Particletree. They’ve got good articles, and it’s a solid read every time a new article pops up in my feed reader. Except when I try to comment, it took about 30 seconds to tell me that, no, I could not comment, because I “didn’t have JavaScript enabled.”
Two things:
Next –